Because of man-made global warming and a strong El Nino, Earth’s wild weather this year is bursting the annual heat record, the World Meteorological Organization announced on Wednesday.
The United Nations weather agency’s early bird report on 2015 says it is the hottest year on record, surpassing last year’s record heat. It made the proclamation without waiting for the end of the year because it has been so extraordinarily hot, forecast to stay that way and unlikely to cool down enough to not set a record.
The report comes the week before world leaders assemble in Paris to try to negotiate an agreement to fight climate change.
“This is all bad news for the planet,” the agency’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, said in a statement.
The report is not surprising: Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and elsewhere already were saying that 2015 likely would be the hottest. The U.N. agency, NOAA, NASA and Japan’s weather agency all say 2014 is the current record hot year with a global temperature of 14.57 degrees Celsius, 58.23 degrees F.
“I would call it certain,” NOAA’s chief climate monitor, Deke Arndt, said on Tuesday. “Something game-changing massive would have to happen for it not to be a record.”
Records go back to 1880.
Jarraud also said it is likely that the world has now warmed by 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, over pre-industrial times. That’s a symbolic milestone: International leaders have set a goal of keeping global warming within 2 degrees C, 3.6 F, of pre-industrial times.
“It’s a fair summary of where we are,” said Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “2015 is going to be exceptional in many ways.”
The world is warming because of heat-trapping gases that come from the burning of coal, oil and gas. On top of that, El Nino, a naturally occurring climate event that starts with warm water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, makes the world even warmer, scientists say.
The report is an atlas of extreme weather, from heat waves in Pakistan and India, where high temperatures broke 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees F, to a record strong Hurricane Patricia in Mexico. It included heavy rains and flooding in the southern United States, Mexico, Bolivia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and droughts in the western United States, central Europe, Russia and Southeast Asia.
(AP)
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If its true Baruch ha-Shem. Warm weather means better crops (and note that crop prices are falling, meaning overproduction) since the growing season is longer. People won’t have all the problems of freezing to death and getting stuck in snow. In previous warm periods in human history (the “classical period” being the time of Bayis Sheini, and also the “high” middle ages being the time of the rishonim), the world did very well. Its interesting that the “cool” periods that followed were known for serious persecution of Jews. In general global warming is a good thing.
Of course, the report is from the UN, which also holds that Jews are the root of all evil and that the Israelis are a bunch of terrorist imperialists with no roots in Eretz Yisrael.
That’s really interesting because the Farmer’s Almanac is predicting an unusually cold, snowy winter this year.
Here were go with the man made global warming hoax again.
There’s one problem with this… It is FALSE! 2014 was not the warmest on record according to NOAA OWN NCEP cfsv2. TWELFTH since 1979! So far 2015 is 5th.
#2, they usually do, automatically. It means nothing.
bahby: You aren’t keeping up on the “news”. Global warming will colder temperatures and more snow, according to one theory (another would say that the corrects itself as part of normal fluctuations, but that’s politically incoorect and heretical).
It’s hard to imagine them writing this article & keeping a straight face. It says that the average temperature rose 1.8 degrees since pre industrial times which is over 100 yrs ago. And this is a catastrophic issue???